Exhibitions

This fall, Canada will welcome its newest national museum, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In recognition of the CMHR, and to welcome it to the Winnipeg cultural community, the WAG has mounted this display of works from its collection that speak to human rights.

This exhibition of approximately 40 paintings, drawings, and prints pays tribute to Robert and Margaret Hucal, Manitoba art collectors who, since 1990, have quietly gifted almost 350 works of mostly Canadian historical painting, sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings to the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

This year Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. This selection of artwork, drawn from Winnipeg Art Gallery’s permanent collection reflects various members, mentors, mentorees, and program participants over MAWA’s history.

The theme for this exhibition was inspired by a sculpture competition in Puvirnituq in 1967 and a subsequent exhibition in Winnipeg in 1972. The competition was organized to encourage the carvers to create works of originality and imagination, independent of the usual commercial production. Artists have continued to create these imaginative works over the years and the WAG has a significant number of these sculptures by a variety of different artists.

From Rome to Utrecht, European artists in the 17th and early 18th century created the emotionally charged work of the Baroque era. In reaction to the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church strove to entice believers back to the fold with gripping and beautiful vignettes of biblical drama

From the WAG's collection, art produced between the 16th and 18th centuries, originating from the leading artistic centres of Europe.This period is marked by important social and political changes, and art itself underwent a major transformation